For Further Reading

There isn't much unbiased literature on the shipping problem. No scholars have written any books on this subject during the last few years, and most of the magazine articles are brief or partial accounts scarcely worth looking up. The best short studies are: Kurt Lachmann, TheShipping Problem at the End of the War, No. 25 in the Studies on Warand Peace, published by the New Schoolfor Social Research, 66 West 12th St., New York 11, N. Y., 1913 (25 cents); and Fortune’s articles on the Merchant Marine, in the issues of November and December 1944. If you really want to enter into this study in a big way, there are the Hearings before the House and Senate committees on H.R. 1425, but you had better know your way around before tackling this mass of testimony.

You can get a general historical background from the following books that are inmost big libraries, even though some are out of print:

Sea Lanes in Wartime: The American Experience, 1775–1942. By Robert G. Albion. Published by W. W. Norton and Co., 70 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y. (1942). $3.50.